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Europeans must cut beef in diet to meet CO2 goals

A Swedish study published on Monday in the Food Policy journal says it's "unavoidable" that Europeans will have to cut their beef and mutton consumption by 50 percent if the EU is to meet its CO2 targets. It says dairy consumption must also go down.

Central European countries say they have "nothing to hide" on rule of law issues - while justice commissioner Vera Jourova said they should agree to the Commission's controversial budget plans on rule of law conditionality.

Giovanni Buttarelli, the European data protection supervisor, says the EU-US data sharing pact known as Privacy Shield will play an increasingly minor role given the general data protection regulation.